Featured Artist: Linda Schnell, Sammamish WA
Linda Schnell, an artist with arthritis, has an enduring fascination with the intersection between art and science. She recognizes like tumbling sea glass, living with arthritis can be a rough journey. Her background in engineering along with a passion for collecting beach treasures inspires Linda to create mixed-media sculptures with her signature style of layering sea glass with special beach finds, clay art, and fused glass.
Red Octopus Sea Temple
Besides being a member of the PNW Glass Guild, Linda is also a proud member of the International Sea Glass Association promoting use of genuine sea glass, education, and conservation, seaglassassociation.org.
Hot Pink Siren Sea Temple
Sea Bloom
Killer Whale Blues
In the description of each piece she details what beach the sea glass came from, what other media she has incorporated and whether any of the piece fluoresces or has other interesting properties. She also does custom pieces using glass collected by her clients. Sea Cairns sales help support the Arthritis Foundation, arthritis.org, Friends of the Issaquah Hatchery (FISH), issaquahfish.org, and Center for Whale Research, whaleresearch.com. You can see more of Linda’s art at Sea-Cairns.com and in the Parklane Gallery artist collective in downtown Kirkland, WA.